Street-railway switch



PatentedPeb. 19,1889

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STREET RAILWAY SWITCH.

(No ModeL) Q 6%W w w lFREDRIL' (l. ETR, OF CINCINNAII, OHIO.

STREET- RAILWAY SWITCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,204, dated February 19, 1889.

Application filed May 24, 1888. Serial No. 274,972. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may 0071. @0770:

Be it known that I, FREDuiru (f. .V 1cm, of Cincinnati, in the county oi" ll'amillon and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Street Railway Switches, of which the following is a specification.

My in\ *ention relates to the construction of a tongue-switch of irdenrai'ls, such as are employed for street-railways. I prefer to employ center girder-rails, but do not limit my self to the use of center-hearing girder-rails.

The object of my invention is to provide aswitch of center girder-rail and a built-up rail formed of the casting secured to said girderrails and forming a strong durable switchpoint, all of which will be fully set forth in the description of the accompanying drawings, making apart of this specification, in which Figure l represei'lts a top plan view ol. my

invention. Fig. 2 is a section on line m m, Fig: 1. Fig. 3 isa section on line y y, Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a section on line .2, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a section on line 8 s, Fig.

A represeutsa center girder-rail havin its flange 1 cut off to form the desired taper.

2 represents a spacing and guard block. It is provided in the rear of the tongue with the flange 3 and on the opposite side with the flange 4, the space between these flanges and 4 being sufficient to allow of the movement of the tongue and form flange for the 1 car-wheels.

The tongue is casting 2, I provide .lish-platcs l and 1], which are bent to form a yoke, 12. in rear of said eas "ng, as shown in Fig. 1. These fishplates are secured by means of bolts 13 to the spacing and guard block 2 and form fishplates for glltlQlPlflllS attached between them.

By using the spacing and guard block 2 for the support of the tongue-switch I obtain a strong durable support, and it serves as a spacing and support block for the outside guard of the switch-point and an abutment to which the girder-rail is firmly secured by through-bolts, preventing the enlargement or spreading of the points of the frog. This form of construction is adapted to the springtongue as well as the hinged tongue.

Havi nd escribed in v invention whatl claim is 1. A snitch-point composed, substantially, of the girdenrail and guard and spacing block 2, provided with giuird-flange 4, and secured together by means of through-bolts, substantially as specified.

2. A switch-point composed, substantially, of the girder-rail and spacing and guard block 2, provided with flanges 3 and l, secured to gether by through-bolts 9, substantially as herein specified.

3. In combination with the girder-rail A and guard and spacing block 2, the fish-plates l0 and 11 for connecting the girder-rail to said casting-block 2, substantially as specified.

l. In. combination with the girder-rail A,

' guard and spacing block 2, provided with represents a switch-tongue secured to the t movable back and forth in the space between the girder-rail A and the flange I. The rail A is secured to the spacing and guard block 3 2 by means of througlrbolts 9.

I11 order to attach the girder-rail to the flange 4-, the switclrtongue 5g, pivoted to said guard and spacing block, substantially as herein specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

FREDRIC C. IVEIR. Witnesses:

ROBERT ZAHNER, J. WnTsoN thus. 

